Choral services
Sung prayer has been offered in Westminster Abbey nearly every day for over a thousand years. Today, services are sung daily during term time by the world-renowned Choir of Westminster Abbey, and by visiting choirs when the Abbey Choir is in recess.
The music sung ranges from Gregorian chant dating from the first millennium to contemporary music and encompasses the remarkable richness and variety of the Anglican choral tradition.
This week's choral services
| Sunday, 25th September 2022 | ||
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| Fifteenth Sunday after Trinity | ||
| 10.00am | Matins | St Margaret's Church |
| sung by the Choir of Westminster Abbey | Clucas Keep me as the apple of an eye Preacher: The Right Reverend Anthony Ball Canon of Westminster and Rector of St Margaret's Church |
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| 11.15am | Sung Eucharist | Quire |
| sung by the Choir of Westminster Abbey | Mozart Missa brevis in C K220 'Spatzenmesse' Preacher: The Very Reverend Dr David Hoyle MBE Dean of Westminster |
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| 3.00pm | Evensong | Quire |
| sung by the Choir of Westminster Abbey | Clucas Keep me as the apple of an eye Preacher: The Reverend David Stanton Canon in Residence |
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| Monday, 26th September 2022 | ||
| Wilson Carlile, founder of the Church Army, 1942 | ||
| 5.00pm | Evensong | Quire |
| sung by the Choristers | plainsong Te lucis ante terminum |
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| Tuesday, 27th September 2022 | ||
| Vincent de Paul, founder of the Congregation of the Mission, 1660 | ||
| 5.00pm | Evensong | Quire |
| attended by HE The High Commissioner for Botswana | Farrant Lord, for thy tender mercy's sake |
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| Thursday, 29th September 2022 | ||
| ST MICHAEL AND ALL ANGELS | ||
| 5.00pm | Sung Eucharist | Quire |
| sung by the Choir of Westminster Abbey | Victoria Missa Vidi speciosam Preacher: The Reverend Mark Birch Precentor |
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| Friday, 30th September 2022 | ||
| St Jerome, translator of the Scriptures, teacher of the faith, 420 | ||
| 5.00pm | Evensong | Quire |
| sung by the Choir of Westminster Abbey | attr Farrant Lord, for thy tender mercy's sake |
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| Saturday, 1st October 2022 | ||
| Anthony Ashley Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury, social reformer, 1885 | ||
| Thérèse of Lisieux, religious, 1897 | ||
| 3.00pm | Evensong | Quire |
| sung by the Choir of Westminster Abbey | attr Farrant Lord, for thy tender mercy's sake |
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